crowjonah

crowjonah

Favorite films

  • Trust
  • Old Joy
  • Mystery Men
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas

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  • You Hurt My Feelings

    ★★★

  • Aftersun

    ★★★★★

  • The Flowers of St. Francis

    ★★★

  • Between the Temples

    ★★★★

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  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ★★★★★

    Vaguely aware that it’s had some critical success, I’m glad to have gone in otherwise blind and had a touching personal experience. Afraid to find out what anyone else thinks about this. I recommend it, but if you don’t like it I don’t want to know.

  • The Flowers of St. Francis

    The Flowers of St. Francis

    ★★★

    I wanted this to be more emotionally thorough. Instead it’s bumbling parable, presented at face value. The nature stuff is fun, Brother Pig and Sister Wind and whatnot. I dunno.

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★½

    I guess my issue with this is that I (hypocritically) have a super low tolerance for the combination of fervor and inarticulateness about culture, or, if you must, "art." I don't really like listening to people talk about TV shows. I'm sorry. I know this isn't actually "about" that, and I appreciated and enjoyed plenty about this, but at too high a cost for me personally to be able to say that I "like" it.

  • Lethal Weapon

    Lethal Weapon

    ★★★½

    befriended my kid’s friend’s dad and we started running together a couple days a week, mostly threshold miles and 800s on the track early in the morning, and we get a bit of banter going during warmup and cooldown, but we’re usually working too hard to do much chatting, except for one time he was like, “we’re too old for this shit,” and I laughed, and he said “you know like in lethal weapon?” and I laughed and nodded semi-ambiguously,…

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